I have managed to get so far with setting up Samba in Xfce4-Ububtu 8.10. I can see the other windows computer and the files therein but cannot access the files. I have set the 'share' in windows but on my Xubuntu I cannot change the recommended settings in Apps/System/Users & Groups, the properties of /media/network file for my username read write, group read only, others read only. I can change the setting but it does not stick!

Happily from the windows computer I can see and access the files but cannot write (copy over) new files.

Would appreciate your suggestions to fix this, and a guide to affect (chmod) so that I do not get into a big mess!.

I'm confused, what functionality will this add over just using the built in smb:// browsing functionality of Nautilus?

with this you can browse the network as if it was part of the file system, (like /media/network/workgroups/ etc.) and thus all applications (for example the terminal) can have acces to files over samba shares. only a limited number of applications support Nautilus's way of browsing.

with this you can browse the network as if it was part of the file system, (like /media/network/workgroups/ etc.) and thus all applications (for example the terminal) can have acces to files over samba shares. only a limited number of applications support Nautilus's way of browsing.

Maybe I'll give it a shot, though I just created a symlink in my home directory called "Network" that points to my ~/.gvfs directory, this gives all my apps, including the terminal, access to any share I have opened in Nautilus, though I do have to open the share in Nautilus before it will work, maybe this will save me a step.